Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson, 19 other state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission are suing Dollar General for allegedly knowingly overcharging customers and failing to fix deceptive pricing practices.
The lawsuit alleges Dollar General mislabeled prices for years, overcharged consumers and failed to correct the problems even though company executives knew about them.
Dollar General “extracted millions of dollars in unlawful overcharges from customers at thousands of its stores by failing to correct the pricing issues,” and was the subject of “tens of thousands of complaints from consumers nationwide who say the company did not honor its advertised prices, demonstrating widespread consumer harm and underscoring the retailer’s knowledge of the problem,” Wilson’s office said in a news release…